How to Set Up a Remote Backup on my own web server
August 18th, 2008 Posted in Tips & TricksSo, you have a Web server and you have an Apple Mac.
How do you back up all your important local files to your Web server?
I spent a lot of time investigating this looking for software on both my PC and my Mac. The truth of the matter is, there is a lot of rubbishy software out there. All I wanted to be able to do was set up a way to synchronize my backups with a minimum of fuss. You would think that it would be pretty easy really but I was wrong!
I tried to so many different software programs to try and accomplish this task that I almost drove myself crazy.
Anyway, I will make it simple for you. If you own a Mac, get yourself a copy of Yummy FTP. Why would I choose this program over the abundance of programs already available?
There are 6 reasons:
- I can use it as a regular FTP program
- it is multi-threading
- I can synchronize my files with out having to zip them up
- it gives a report on what it is going to do before you hit the okay button
- it doesn’t crash when trying to do multiple tasks like Filezilla does
- it works seamlessly and fast
It’s really a shame that it has such a dodgy name but its features outshine the moment that you start using it.
(Yes, this is a personal endorsement and I am not in any way affiliated with the software developers)
